The Absolute Zenith Complex Psychiatric Condition: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Personality of Dictators

Desmond Ayim-Aboagye

Regent University College of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Psychology, Ghana

Dr. Desmond Ayim-Aboagye, Regent University College of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Psychology, Ghana.

Keywords: Defense Mechanism; Denial; Dictators; Dreams; Psychoanalysis; Psychobiography; Transference; Unconscious

Abstract

Introduction
The clinical approaches for treating psychopathology in the terminologies of Sigmund Freud were employed to study the personality structure of dictators. The theory depicts how an individual’s personality is formed, moreover, how the dynamics of personality growth or its development could look. This procedure was utilized to investigate dictators and their precarious conditions as they profess to be guided by some external powers in the universe. As a result, their behaviors, demeanors, and overall ideologies, which are pathological and authoritarian, generate hysterical features that the psychoanalyst would be interested in studying. These conditions are what make them incredibly paranoid and consequently become agents of persecution.
Objective
This study aimed to uncover, explain, and analyze with the assistance of the psychoanalytic theory a psychiatric state that is often seen with men and women who, instead of utilizing their brains, shun them and depend solely on “supernatural agents” to steer their leadership tasks. Human advice given to them is meaningless unless it has been a dream.

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